Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history... Geology itself is only chemistry with the element of time added.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Volume 8), Letters and Social Aims, Chapter VII (p. 212)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history... Geology itself...

Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history... Geology itself...

Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history... Geology itself...

Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history... Geology itself...